![]() Owing to an ambiguity in the original Hebrew text, it is unclear whether it is he or Ashur who additionally built Nineveh, Resen, Rehoboth-Ir and Calah (both interpretations are reflected in various English versions). ![]() Genesis says that the "beginning of his kingdom" ( reshit mamlakhto) were the towns of " Babel, Erech, Akkad and Calneh in the land of Shinar" ( Mesopotamia) (Gen 10:10)-understood variously to imply that he either founded these cities, ruled over them, or both. This is repeated in the First Book of Chronicles 1:10, and the "Land of Nimrod" used as a synonym for Assyria or Mesopotamia, is mentioned in the Book of Micah 5:6:Īnd they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders. ![]() He is described as the son of Cush, grandson of Ham, and great-grandson of Noah and as "a mighty one in the earth" and "a mighty hunter before the Lord". The first biblical mention of Nimrod is in the Table of Nations. Pieter Bruegel's The Tower of Babel depicts a traditional Nimrod inspecting stonemasons.
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